Dear Co-Chairs, I have reviewed the e-mail exchanged among Jurisdiction Sub Group and extracted some issues referred therein. This extract was sent to Grec and Sub Group for action I will request you to kindly consider that and advise the sub group to take that into account Kavouss *Issues extracted from exchange of e-mails among WS2 Jurisdiction sub group which should to be carefully examined and responded by WS2, Jurisdiction Sub-Group* 1. What is the likelihood and circumstances under which the unilateral application of US public law to ICANN occurs, taking into account ICANN global governance function? 2. Could a US Court change the decision of delegation of a gTLD, whenever the registry may be based? 3. Could a US Court also impose the wisdom of US law over the domain allocation conditions of a gTLD ? 4. Could we determine that US law applies to ICANN in exactly the same manner as of any other country? 5. How the available choice of law could be exercised? 6. How ICANN could specify that a given dispute be determined by an arbitral panel in other countries than US? 7. Should the choice of law not decided in the agreement, could either party make that choice when dispute arises? 8. Which jurisdiction laws have been applied since the creation of ICANN governing disputes involving ICANN 9. If for government and IGO parties Swiss law applies why for certain cases involving government(s) US jurisdiction were sought? 10. Does the US court intervene as a policy making power or just a dispute settlers (. Africa) 11. Who decides that an issue / dispute involve public interests? 12. Could ICANN Be exempted FROM us Public laws under US Immunity Acts? 13. Could we confirm that Internet core resources are global public good and thus cannot be subject to one country‘s jurisdiction ? 14. Could US make laws that prohibit ICANN / PTI from doing business with particular countries? 15. Could the US law prohibit ICANN to make changes in Root Zone? 16. Why US jurisdiction must always be applied to nationals of other countries ? 17. How the States Sovereignty is ensured if US Jurisdiction applies? 18. Is a ccTLD considered as country assets? 19. What if OFAC does not give licence to ICANN for dealing with a particular country due to great deterioration of relationship with US? 20. As of Ist October 2016 ,public laws is not a concern for ICANN as ICANN is an entirely private based entity, please confirm that 21. For application of public law, there is no choice of jurisdiction? true or false? 22. For application private law parties could preselect jurisdiction, true or false? 2016-12-13 15:10 GMT+01:00 Bernard Turcotte <turcotte.bernard@gmail.com>:

All,

PDF attached which includes the agenda which I have also included in text below:

1 Introduction, update to SOIs, reminder on standards of behaviour

2 Administration

- Timeline - IRP-IOT Public Consultation - ATRT3 Letter to SO/ACs - Funding for ICANN 58

3 Legal Committee

- Review of Requests - Process for requests from IRP-IOT

4 Updates/Presentation from sub-groups

- IGF (short update) - Ombudsman (short update) - SO/AC accountability (short update) - Diversity (short update and questions) - Jurisdiction (review of questions) - Human rights (first reading) - Transparency (first reading)

5 AOB

6 Adjournment

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